Contact lenses get pretty thin nowadays, but they’ve got nothing on a new lens from scientists at Stanford and the University of Amsterdam. The team has created the world’s thinnest lens, measuring ...

Researchers in Israel have made a new type of contact lens that can correct a form of red–green colour blindness known as deuteranomaly. By incorporating plasmonic metasurfaces into standard contact ...

Given their tiny size, individual atoms are notoriously tricky to see and manipulate, but finding ways to do so would be extremely useful. The invention of the laser in the 1960s eventually led to the ...